Division of Nuclear Physics Newsletter No. 145 The American Physical Society November 2005
TO: Members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, APS FROM: Benjamin F. Gibson, LANL – Secretary-Treasurer, DNP
Cynthia E. Keppel Steven E. Vigdor Future Deadlines
Candidate biographies are included in this newsletter (item #20). • 13 January 2006 — Abstract deadline for spring meeting
• 20 January 2006 — DNP Election Ballot Web balloting has been approved by the Division's membership. Those • 17 February 2006 — Early registration for spring meeting with email addresses registered with the APS will receive an election • 20 March 2006 — Housing deadline for spring meeting email containing instructions plus a PIN number. Those for whom no • 1 April 2006 — Nominations for Fellowship email address is available or whose email bounces will be sent a paper ballot. The deadline for voting is 20 January 2006. The home page for the Division of Nuclear Physics is now available at “http://dnp.aps.org.” Information of interest to DNP members -- As a DNP member, please exercise your right to vote in the DNP current research topics, deadlines for meetings, prize nominations, election. Typically only some 600+ election ballots have been mailed in forms, and useful links are provided. Each DNP Newsletter is by members. Your vote does count. It is important. DNP elections have posted, in advance of the copy sent via post. Comments and been decided by fewer than 5 votes. suggestions are solicited. Please send them to Thomas Glasmacher at
1. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE Given the importance of agency sponsorship in making nuclear physics COMMITTEE FOR 2006 research possible, it is urged that DNP members acknowledge their
agency sponsors in any talk or publication which they generate: The terms of the officers and three members of the current Executive seminars, workshop contributions, APS meeting talks, conference Committee will expire at the close of the Business meeting of the talks/posters, etc. Division to be held in conjunction with the APS general meeting in
Dallas, 23-25 April 2006. Susan J. Seestrom will become Chair,
Richard G. Milner will become Chair-Elect, and Bradley M. Sherrill 3. SESSION CHAIRS FOR THE DALLAS, TX, APRIL 2006 will become Past-Chair. A. Baha Balantekin is the Divisional Councilor APS SPRING MEETING through 2009. Ani Aprahamian, Anna C. Hayes, and David Hertzog will remain members of the Executive Committee. A Vice Chair, The APS/DNP Spring Meeting will be in Dallas, TX. Those who are Secretary-Treasurer, and three members of the Executive Committee willing to chair a session should please send an email message to Susan are to be elected before April 2006. Executive Committee member Seestrom (
needed by 6 January. Nominations of younger colleagues who will This year's Nominating Committee consists of S. J. Yennello (Chair), attend the meeting are welcome. K. deJager (Vice Chair), R.J. Furnstahl, A. Hime, and J.H. Thomas. The candidates selected by the Nominating Committee and approved by the Executive Committee are: INSIDE . . . • Prizes and Awards Vice-Chair (one position): • Future Meeting Dates
Richard F. Casten • Report from DNP05 Alice C. Mignerey • Spring Meeting Previewed
Secretary-Treasurer: • Abstract Submission Procedure • Fellow Nominations Benjamin F. Gibson
Executive Committee (three positions): 4. 2005 DNP DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WINNER Jolie A. Cizewski Jonathan H. Engel The 2005 winner of the American Physical Society’s Division of Carl A. Gagliardi Nuclear Physics’ Distinguished Service Award, B. C. Clark of Ohio State University, was announced at the Business/Town meeting held Ulrich W. Heinz during the Fall Meeting in Hawaii. The citation reads:
For her exceptional contributions to the Division of Nuclear Physics, the DNP meeting but want to take the opportunity to learn about a field her leadership of the Division and of the American Physical Society on of specialty of the local community. behalf of the Division, and her tireless efforts to promote science and the status of women in nuclear physics, including the initiation of many programs to enhance the participation of under-represented groups in 9. FUTURE APS SPRING MEETING INFORMATION nuclear science.
2006 April 22 – 25 Dallas, TX Congratulations are due to Bunny. She has provided significant service to the Division which has benefited every member. 2007 April 14 – 17 Jacksonville, FL 2008 April 12 – 15 St. Louis, MO 5. 2006 BONNER PRIZE WINNER 2009 May 2-5 Denver, CO
John C. Hardy of Texas A&M University and Ian S. Towner of Queen's University have been named the winners of the APS 2006 Tom W. The 2005 APS Spring Meeting will move to Dallas, TX. Any Bonner Prize in nuclear physics. The citation reads: comments/suggestions should be sent to APS Meetings Manager, Donna Baudrau ([email protected]). In recognition of their ultra-high precision measurements detailed analyses of 0+ 0+ nuclear beta decay rates to explore the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix as a test of 10. REPORT ON THE 2005 DNP/JPS FALL MEETING the electroweak Standard Model. The Second Joint Meeting of the nuclear physicists of the American Please go to http://www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards for Physical Society and the Physical Society of Japan (HAW05) took place additional information. at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Kapalua Resort on the island of Maui from Sunday, 18 September, through Thursday, 22 September. Some 900 registered participants took advantage of the local attractions, 96 6. 2006 BETHE PRIZE WINNER workshop presentations, 28 invited and plenary talks, 23 mini- symposium lead speaker talks, and 560+ contributed papers. The A.G.W. Cameron of Harvard University has been named the winner of meeting was a resounding success, serving as a meeting ground to foster the APS 2006 Hans A. Bethe Prize. The citation reads: cooperation, collaboration, and the exchange of ideas among nuclear scientists from Japan, the U.S., and other Pacific Rim countries. For his pioneering work in developing the fundamental concepts of Moreover, it provided an unusual opportunity for students from Japan nuclear astrophysics. These basic ideas, laid out almost 50 years ago, and the U.S. to meet, interact, and discuss their visions of careers in are still the basis of current research in this field. nuclear physics.
Please go to http://www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards for Eight all-day workshops ran in parallel on Sunday morning and additional information. afternoon. Topics included “Nuclear/Hadron Physics at JLab and J- PARC”, “Strongly Interacting Matter Probed at RHIC”, “Spin Structure 7. 2006 DISSERTATION AWARD WINNER Studies at RHIC”, “Beyond qq-bar and qqq: Pentaquarks and More”, “Nuclear States Under Extreme Conditions of Binding and Isospin Li-Bang Wang of the University of Illinois has been named the winner Asymmetry”, “Double Beta-Decay and Neutrino Mass”, “Neutrino of the DNP 2005 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics Award for his thesis Astrophysics”, and “Neutron-rich Nuclei in Nuclear Astrophysics”. The work under the direction of Roy J. Holt. The citation reads: workshops were followed by a Nishina Foundation Symposium (speaker T. Yamazaki), a pavilion reception, and a symposium For his outstanding and innovative experimental work to precisely celebrating the scientific life of Hans A. Bethe (speakers T. Otsuka on increase the charge radius of the exotic and short-lived isotope 6He by behalf of H. Sato and G.E. Brown). laser spectroscopic studies of single atoms stored in a magneto-optical trap. The result helps to reveal the nature of weakly-bound nuclei and The Plenary session on Monday included an exchange of gifts between serves as a key benchmark for nuclear models. H. Sakai (representing the JPS) and B.M. Sherrill (representing the APS). The talks on “Future Directions in Nuclear Physics” were by M. Please go to www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards for Turner, T. Motobayashi, H. Horuichi, and D.F. Geesaman. Six invited additional information. speaker sessions covered the topics of “Recent Progress in Nuclear Astrophysics”, “New Results for Exotic Nuclei in the sd-pfg Shell”, “Nucleon Baryon Interactions”, “Applications of Nuclear Science”, 8. FUTURE DNP FALL MEETINGS “Exploration of a New State of Dense Matter”, and “QCD Beyond Three Quarks”. Mini-symposia were held on numerous subjects: “Mini- 2006 October 25-28 Nashville, TN symposium on Low Energy Tests of the SM and Searches for New Physics”, “Mini-symposium on Hypernuclei”, “Mini-symposium on
Compton Scattering from Nucleons and Nuclei”, “Mini-symposium on The dates include the Wednesday “workshops,” which are normally Nuclear Moments”, “Mini-symposium on Chiral and Color held in conjunction with the DNP Fall Meetings. Holding “workshops” Condensation”, “Mini-symposium on New Aspects of Nuclear Forces”, at the DNP Fall Meetings is a tradition that began with the 1986 “Mini-symposium on Pair and Cluster Correlations in Nuclei”, “Mini- Vancouver meeting. All meeting attendees are welcome and encouraged symposium on Structure Changes of Asymmetric Nuclear Systems”, to come. It has been the intention of the DNP Executive Committees “Mini-symposium on Strongly Interacting Quark Matter”, “Mini- that these “workshops” should have broad appeal, with introductory symposium on Pentaquarks”, “Mini-symposium on Relativistic Heavy pedagogical talks for the benefit of those who have come primarily for Ions, Recombination”, “Mini-symposium on Orbital Motion of Quarks in Hard Scattering”, “Mini-symposium on Nuclear Physics in Extreme provides an excellent opportunity for students to present their research, Astrophysical Conditions”, “Mini-symposium on Orbital Motion of to hear about a broad range of physics topics, and to meet potential Quarks in Hard Scattering”, “Mini-symposium on Neutrino Mixing and employers. To promote graduate (and in very special cases CP Violation: Reactors, Accelerators, and Supernovae”, and “Mini- undergraduate) student participation, the DNP will offer travel awards symposium on New Technology in Gamma Ray Detection” Contributed of $200 plus complimentary registration for the meeting -- based on papers were presented in 32 sessions that ran in parallel with the invited merit and need. In order to be eligible students must present a talk at the sessions and mini-symposia. April meeting, complete the application process by the Jan. 13th deadline, and provide a statement of support from their thesis or On Monday morning a brunch and speakers program (S. Yennello and research supervisor. Please see the DNP web site for more details and E. Hiyama) focused upon women and minorities in physics. It was the application procedure. sponsored by the DNP, JPS, ANL, BNL, LBNL, LANL, SURA, and WECAN. On Wednesday afternoon DNP Chair Brad Sherrill conducted the DNP Business and Town Meetings. Highlights included the DNP 13. DNP APRIL 2006 MEETING PROGRAM Distinguished Service Award presentation to Bunny C. Clark (Ohio State University) and reports by the funding agency representatives, The DNP Program Committee, under the leadership of Program Brad Keister (NSF) and Dennis Kovar (DOE). Warren Rogers Committee Chair Susan Seestrom, has completed its planning activity (Westmont College) again organized several activities within the for the DNP component of the APS April Meeting (22-25 April) in Conference Experience for Undergraduates, including a poster session Dallas. There will again be plenary sessions at 8:30 a.m. on three of the with refreshments sponsored by Physical Review C and Physical four meeting days. As in Tampa, invited sessions will have only three Review Letters, two one-hour lectures, and a session on graduate school speakers. For the details please see the APS web site. information. Some 80 undergraduates from the U.S. participated plus 16 undergraduate students from Japan. On Wednesday evening more than A number of joint sessions are being organized with other APS units. 600 people enjoyed the Aloha Ho'olaule'a (buffet) in the Ritz-Carlton Included are two DNP/FHP/DPF sessions on the 50th Anniversary of pavilion. parity non conservation, DNP/DPB sessions on high luminosity electron-ion colliders and hadron structure studies using polarized The meeting was preceded by a Physics Fun Day outreach program held beams, DNP/DPF sessions on neutrinos, dark matter, and the at the Queen Ka'ahumahu Shopping Center in Kahului, organized by the Underground Lab, and a DNP/FED session reviewing what was learned DNP Education Committee with special thanks to M. Mahan and C. from the World Year of Physics. Beausang. University departments and National Labs sponsored activities for students ranging from grade school to adults. A Physics Stand alone DNP sessions are being organized by DNP Program Olympics for high school and middle school teams was included. Committee members. The DNP Prize Session will involve three of the Awards to the winning teams were presented prior to the Public Lecture four winners of the Bonner Prize, Bethe Prize, and Nuclear Physics held at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center. Lawrence Krauss, Professor Dissertation Award. The fourth talk will be highlighted in one of the of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, spoke on “Einstein's two voted sessions being organized by Program Committee Chair Susan Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story.” Seestrom based upon the voting of the Program Committee on speaker nominations submitted by the DNP membership. A topic session on The Organizing Committee expresses its thanks to Kay Grady, Kiyoko “Physical Properties of Partonic Matter” and a second topic session on Hirose, Karen Hope, Dianna Jacobs, and Ikuho Nakano for their help “Implications of QCD Transitions for Cosmology” are being organized with registration as well as Carol Kuc and her staff from Complete by T. Hallman and V. Greene. A topic session on “Studies of Light Conference Coordinators, Inc. for their organizational support of the Exotic Nuclei” is being organized by E. Ormand. A fourth topic session meeting. on “Primordial Nucleosynthesis” is being organized by C. Brune.
The DNP Program Committee members are involved in organizing six 11. APS MEETING IN DALLAS, TX, 22 – 25 APRIL 2006 mini-symposia in Dallas. Contributed papers intended for mini- symposia should be identified by the appropriate sorting category listed The 2006 April Meeting of the APS will be held in Dallas, TX, at the below. (Note that the category E14a should be entered as (E}{14}{a} in Hyatt Regency Hotel. Participating APS units will include the Divisions the category field.) Each of the mini-symposia will be headed by a 30 of Nuclear Physics, Particles and Fields, Astrophysics, Physics of minute lead talk, which is intended to provide an introduction upon Beams, Computational Physics, and Plasma Physics. Forums which the following contributed paper talks can rely to have set the represented will include Physics and Society, Education, Int’l. Affairs, stage. Thus, a contributed paper talk in a mini-symposium should, in Graduate Student Affairs, and History of Physics. The program will principle, be able to convey much more detailed information in the consist of three plenary sessions, some 75 invited paper sessions, and allotted time than a contributed paper talk in a regular session. Abstracts more than 100 contributed paper sessions. Plenary sessions can be not selected for a particular mini-symposium because of time found by checking the APS Home Page (www.aps.org) under constraints will be placed in a traditional contributed paper session. All “Meetings, “April Meeting”. For 2006 there will be 4 session per day DNP members are invited to contribute an abstract. Please note the with a lunch break. The sessions will be long enough for only 3 invited new rules which state that a second contributed abstract by the talks. The early registration deadline is 17 February and the hotel same lead author will be placed in poster session and any additional deadline is 20 March. abstract by the same lead author will not be included in the program.
12. APRIL 2006 MEETING STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS, It would assist the organizers of the min-symposia if a copy of your B. M. Sherrill abstract intended for a particular mini-symposium (at least the title and authors) were sent to the organizer (listed in parenthesis following the The DNP is pleased to offer a limited number of travel grants to mini-symposium sorting category) when submitted to the APS. encourage students to participate in April 2006. The APS April meeting Abstracts mis-directed to the wrong sorting category can then be more easily located and properly inserted into the program at the sorters 15. NATIONAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS SUMMER SCHOOL meeting. PLANNING (NNPSS), J. Beacom departing Chair and Krishna Kumar, incoming Chair Sorting categories for nuclear physics are: The NNPSS, which began in 1988, and typically has about 40 E. NUCLEAR PHYSICS participants per year, is an essential educational component for a large E1. Nuclear Astrophysics fraction of the nuclear physics Ph.D. students in the U.S.A. Besides E2. Electroweak Interactions strengthening them technically, the NNPSS exposes students to the E3. Neutrino Physics wide variety of topics in nuclear physics, as well as introducing them to E4. Electromagnetic Interactions their future peers and the leaders of the field. The unifying effects of the E5. Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ions NNPSS benefit nuclear physics as a whole, and these effects are E6. Nuclear Reactions: Heavy-Ions/Rare Isotope Beams enhanced by the ongoing rotation of host institutions, lecturers, and E7. Nuclear Reactions: Hadrons/Light Ions NNPSS Committee members. Besides its continued popularity with E8. Nuclear Structure students, advisors, and lecturers, the importance of the NNPSS is E9. Sub-nucleonic Degrees of Freedom highlighted by the long-term financial support from the NSF, E10. Hadronic Physics administrative support from the INT, and the endorsement and oversight E11. Nuclear Theory by the DNP. The hosts for NNPSS 2006 (summer, dates to be E12. Instrumentation determined) will be Adam Szczepaniak
Complete abstract submission instructions can be found at the URL The DNP deadline is 1 April. Nomination forms are available from the http://www.aps.org/meet/abstracts/meet-abstract.html. APS Home Page or can be obtained by sending an e-mail message to”[email protected]” or by calling (301) 209-3286. Completed The deadline for receipt of abstracts for the April meeting (APR06) is forms should be returned to Dr. J. Franz at the same address. January 13, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. EST. You are strongly urged to proof Information can also be found on the APS home page your abstract before submission. (http://www.aps.org); click on the word “fellowship”. The nomination form can also be downloaded. NOTE: Abstracts are no longer accepted via e-mail. The 2006 DNP Fellowship Committee is comprised of D. F. Geesaman To submit a contributed abstract using the online web submission (Chair), C. R. Gould, M. J. Ramsey-Musolf, E. J. Beise, and J-C. Peng. process, an author must know two things: (1) the number and ordering The Fellowship Committee reviews the nominations for APS of authors and collaborators; (2) the abstract content. The web page will Fellowship referred to the DNP and recommends a slate of candidates, guide you through the rest. which is forwarded to the APS Fellowship Committee and then to the APS Council for approval. Nominations remain active for two years. Note: APS members are entitled to one oral contributed abstract. A second abstract by the same lead author will be assigned to a poster It is particularly important for nominators to ensure that the cases that session. they prepare for the Fellowship Committee are well documented. In addition to that requested on the nomination form, information such as Try a test submission before submitting your abstract. Log onto lists of invited talks, awards, professional activities, committee services, http://abstracts.aps.org and select the meeting TEST. Follow the and participation in organization of conferences is very helpful. directions online to create your own practice abstract. When ready to Inclusion of a complete publication list is highly recommended. submit your abstract online, select the meeting APR06 by clicking on the appropriate button. A form will be created for you. Simply input the The DNP has adopted the following Fellowship Criteria Guidelines. To information. be chosen as a Fellow, an APS member should have a record of excellence in research that has been sustained over several years, and NOTE: Invited speakers should refer to their letters of invitation for have completed at least one major, original work that has influenced instructions on locating the invited template. his/her specialty in a significant way. The APS requires membership for at least the prior year. If you have questions regarding abstract submission, please send them to [email protected]. The list of APS Fellows (by APS subunit) elected in a given year 45 are $62/$67 retail and $43.40/$46.90 for DNP members. Volume 46 appears on the APS Home Page in December and is published in the is $67/$72 retail and $46.90/$50.40 for DNP members. Volumes 47 - 50 March issue of APS News. The names of newly elected DNP Fellows are $70/$75 retail and $49/$52.50 for DNP members. Volume 51 is are published in the February Newsletter and the awards are presented $75/$80 retail and $52.50/$56.00 for DNP members, and Volume 52 is at the DNP Business meeting of the Spring APS meeting. $77/$82 retail and $53.90/$57.40 for DNP members.
Other Annual Reviews series publications are also available. A 17. NOMNATIONS FOR DNP DISTINGUISHED SERVICE complete listing of topics and authors for the current volumes and back AWARD volumes of Annual Reviews publications may be viewed on the Annual Reviews Web Site at http://www.AnnualReviews.org. The Web Site Nominations are sought for the Division of Nuclear Physics’ also features a fully searchable abstracts data base for all Annual Distinguished Service Award. This APS Unit Award is intended to Reviews publications, which allows visitors to search by author name or recognize those who have made substantial and extensive contributions key words. to the nuclear physics community through the activities of the DNP. The award will consist of a certificate with the citation specified by the Payment should accompany your order and must be in U.S. funds. selection committee and approved by the DNP Executive Committee. California orders must add applicable sales tax. All orders shipped to Nominees should be active or emeritus members of the DNP. There are Canada require the addition of a 7% GST (Reg. #121449029 RT). no time limitations on contributions that can be recognized by this award. Nominations will remain active for three years. The award need not to be given each year. No more than two recipients will be selected in a given year. The selection committee will consist of the DNP Chair, 20. CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES Chair-Elect, Vice-Chair, Past-Chair, and Secretary-Treasurer. The DNP Chair will serve as the chair of the selection committee. NOMINATIONS FOR VICE-CHAIR
Nominations are due 28 February 2006 for the award to be given during Richard F. Casten — BS magna cum laude, College of the Holy the 2006 Fall Meeting. Nominations should be limited to a one page Cross, 1963; PhD, Yale University, 1967. Postdoctoral fellow Niels description of the candidate’s contributions to nuclear physics through Bohr Inst, 1967-69, LANL, 1969-71; asst. scientist BNL, 1971-73, the DNP, plus an optional listing of positions held, major committee assoc. scientist, 1973-76, scientist, 1977-81, sr. scientist; 1981-96, memberships, and the like. Duplicate nominations are not helpful. Five group leader nuclear structure group, 1981-96; professor physics, Dir. copies of the nomination should be sent to: A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Lab. Yale U., 1995--. Recipient Sr. Alexander von Humboldt prize, 1983. Fellow APS, AAAS, IOP (U.K.); Bradley M. Sherrill Member NSAC, 1998-2000; Chair, NSAC 2003-2005; NSAC Long NSCL Range Plan Working Groups, 1989, 95, 2001; Member Executive Com. Michigan State University of DNP, 1991-93; DNP Fellowship Com. 1998; AAAS Nominating East Lansing, MI 48824 Com., 2002-2005; Can. NSERC Com. on subatomic physics, 1999- phone: 517-333-6322 2001; Panel int'l rev. of standing and potential of physics research in fax: 517-353-5967 U.K., 2001-2005; Chair, PAC for GSI-Fair Project, 2004, 2005; Chair N. Am. steering com. for Isospin Lab. Radioactive Beam Facility, 1989- 2002; subCom. on implementation of long-range plan, 1991; U.S. rep. 18. TREASURER’S REPORT, B.F. Gibson Megasci. Forum for Nuclear Physics, Subpanel on Intense Beams and Target Sys., 1997, 98; Kleinknecht Com. to develop the Joint Tech. The back page of this newsletter contains a copy of the Treasurer’s Univ. München/U. München Maier Leibniz Laboratory 2001-; Grunder interim summary report to the DNP Executive Committee presented at Task Force (NSAC) on the Technological Realization of an Advanced HAW05 in Hawaii. The DNP Fund balance reflects all income and ISOL Facility, 1998-2000; IN2P3 Review Com. for PIAFE; IUPAP expenses associated with all past APS spring (April) meetings and all Com. on International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics, 2004, 2005; past DNP fall meetings. The substantial improvement in the balance BNL Council 1986-89; Executive Com. for UNISOR ORNL, 1981; Users Executive Com. for HRIBF, 1993-1995; HRIBF PAC, 1995- from February 2002 through March 2004 reflects transmittal of the 1997; Chair, NSERC Com. for Review of DRAGON (TRIUMF), 1997; proceeds from several past fall meetings to the DNP’s account with the Com. for an exotic beam facility at the Univ. of Sao Paulo, 1997; Panel APS. The Bethe Prize Fund is self sustaining and will continue to be so on basic nuclear data NAS, 1990- 92; Chair Phys. Rev. C Review Task after the APS raises the prize level to $10,000 in 2006. The Bonner Force, 1995; Associate Editor: Phys. Rev. C, 2001--; Editorial Board, Prize Fund is self sustaining at the current $7,500 prize level, but the Phys. Rev. C, 1988-90; Member editorial boards Nuclear Physics News endowment must be raised to $200,000 in order to support a $10,000 Int'l, Int'l J. of Modern Physics, J. of Physics G, 1997-2000, Modern annual prize. The Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award Fund is self Physics Letters; co-organizer of 8 Int’l Conferences; author 2 textbooks sustaining at the current $2,000 award level. on Nuclear Structure. Research Interests: nuclear structure, exotic nuclei, collectivity, dynamical symmetries, proton-neutron interactions, phase transitions. 19. ANNUAL REVIEWS OF NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE SCIENCE Alice C. Mignerey — Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland. Education: B.S. in Chemistry, University of Rochester, 1971; Ph.D. in New Ordering Procedure: Orders should be sent directly to: Annual Nuclear Chemistry, University of Rochester, 1975. Positions held: Reviews, Attn: Clarette Tupper, Customer Service, 4139 El Camino Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, 1976- Way, P. O. Box 10139, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0139 (e-mail: 1979. Assistant Professor, University of Maryland 1979-1984; [email protected]). DNP membership will be verified Associate Professor, University of Maryland 1984-1989; Professor, through the DNP prior to shipment of orders. University of Maryland, 1989 - present. Acting Associate Dean for Research, University of Maryland, 1992-1994; Associate Chair for 2005 Prices: The dual prices (separated by a slash) listed below Graduate Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, correspond to USA/other countries including Canada. Volumes 44 and University of Maryland, 1993-1995. Program Officer for Nuclear Physics, Physics Division, National Science Foundation, 1998-2001. Education (Chair 2003–present), Executive, Nominating, Program; APS Awards: Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1984; Distinguished Scholar- Committees: Council and Executive Board, Nominating, Membership Teacher Award, University of Maryland, 1988. Recent service: Chair of (Chair 1996), Lilienfeld Prize (Chair 1999); Member, Editorial Board, the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology of the American Phys. Rev. C; Member, Advisory Committee, AIP Statistical Research Chemical Society, 1998; Nuclear Science Advisory Committee 2001- Center; Member, NRC Committees on Basic Nuclear Data 2005; member of the NSAC subcommittee to provide Guidance for Compilations (Chair 1989-92) and Bits of Power. Implementing the 2002 Long Range Plan (co-author of the section on Research and Professional Interests: Structure of nuclei far from the Nuclear Science Workforce). Currently a member of the DNP stability and at high angular momentum; new directions in graduate and Executive Committee. Research Interests: Experimental studies of postdoctoral education. ultrarelativistic heavy-ion reaction mechanisms. Currently working at RHIC as a member of the PHOBOS Collaboration. Specific areas Jonathan H. Engel — Professor of Physics and Astronomy and include nuclear flow measurements and particle production as a Associate Chair (Director of Undergraduate Studies), University of function of centrality and pseudorapidity and system size and energy. North Carolina, 2004- present; B.S., Physics, MIT, 1981; Ph.D., Physics, Yale University, 1986; Weizmann Resarch Fellow, Caltech, NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER 1986-89, Bartol Postdoctoral Fellow and Reserach Associate, Bartol Research Institute, 1989-93; Assistant Professor (1993-99), Associate Benjamin F. Gibson – Staff Member, Los Alamos National Professor (1999-2004), University of North Carolina. Recent Activities: Laboratory, 1972–; Group Leader, 1982–86; B. A. Rice University, Divisional Associate Editor, Phys. Rev. C, 2002-present; 1961; Ph.D. Stanford University, 1966; Post Doctoral Fellow, LLNL, Organizer,”Nuclear Structure Near the Limits of Stability”(Institute for 1966–68; NRC Post Doctoral Research Associate, NBS, Gaithersburg, Nuclear Theory program, fall 2005); Lecturer, National Nuclear Physics Summer School, 2005. Research Interests: fundamental symmetries in 1968–70; Research Associate, Brooklyn College of the CUNY, 1970– nuclei, neutrino physics, nuclear-structure theory, nuclear astrophysics. 72. APS Fellow, 1983; JSPS Research Fellow, Sendai, 1984; Murdoch
Fellow, INT Seattle, 1992; Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Carl A. Gagliardi — Professor of Physics, Texas A&M University, Scientists, Jülich, 1992–. DOE Users Review Panel, 1983; NSAC 1996-present. B.S., Physics and Mathematics, Yale University, 1975; Subcommittee on Computers and Computing, 1984–85; Bates Program M.A., 1977, Ph.D., 1982, Physics, Princeton University. Research Advisory Committee, 1985–89, 1998–; LAMPF Program Advisory Associate, 1982, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory; Committee, 1993; NSF Review Panel for IUCF, 1993; Few-Body Assistant Professor, 1982-88, Associate Professor, 1988-96, Physics Systems Topical Group Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect, and Chair, 1990–93; Department, Texas A&M University; Visiting Scientist, TRIUMF, DNP Program Committee, 1990–92; Natural Sciences and Engineering 2003. Activities: IUCF program committee, 1995-97; STAR Research Council of Canada, Subatomic Physics Grant Selection Collaboration Council, 2001-05; NSF Nuclear Physics funding panel, Committee, 1994–96; NSF Nuclear Theory Panel, 1997–98. Editorial 2002; STAR Publication and Talks Policy Committee (chair), 2002-05; Board of Physical Review C, 1978–79, 1987–88; Editorial Board of Co-convener, STAR High-pT Physics Working Group, 2002-05; Few Body Systems, 1986–91, 1992–97, 1998–; Associate Editor of Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Subpanel on Heavy-Ion Physics, Physical Review C, 1988–92, 1993–97, 1998–2002; Editor of Physical 2004; STAR Advisory Board, 2004-; RSVP Preliminary Baseline Review C, 2002–. Organizing Committee for the DNP Fall Meeting, Review, 2005; Co-convener, RHIC II Forward/pA Working Group, 1989; local organizer for the DNP Light Hadronic Probes Town 2005; Deputy Spokesperson, STAR Collaboration, 2005-. Awards: Meeting, 1989; Co-Organizer of New Vistas in Physics with High Texas A&M Association of Former Students University-wide Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, 2001; Fellow, APS, Energy Pion Beams, 1992; Program Chair for the APS April Meeting, 2002. Research interests: QCD, fundamental interactions, and nuclear 1993; Co-Organizer of Properties and Interactions of Hyperons, 1993; astrophysics. Organizing Committee for Baryons’95, 1995; Organizing Committee for LUGI Symposium: 20 Years of Meson Factory Physics, 1996; Co- Ulrich W. Heinz — Professor of Physics, The Ohio State University, Organizer, ECT* Workshop, 1999; Co-Organizer, INT Workshop, since 2000. Senior Staff Member, Theoretical Physics Division, CERN, 2001; Co-Organizer, INT Fall Program, 2003; Co-Organizer, ECT* 1998-2000. Professor of Physics (C3), University of Regensburg, 1987- Program, 2005; Organizing Committee for PANIC 2005. DNP 2000. Associate Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1986- Secretary-Treasurer, 1995–. Research interests: few-body systems, 1987. Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1984-1986. hypernuclei, electromagnetic interactions in nuclei, meson interactions Habilitation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, 1984. with nuclei, parity nonconservation in nuclear systems, hadron Visiting Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, 1983-1984. structure. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, 1982-1983. German National Academic Foundation NOMINATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 1980-1982. Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, 1980. Several Jolie A. Cizewski – Professor of Physics, Rutgers University, 1986- visiting appointments. American Physical Society Service: Hadronic present; Vice Dean, Graduate School – New Brunswick, Rutgers, 2002- Physics Topical Group Fellowship Committee (2002-2004, Chair 2002- present; Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Program in Physics 2003), Division of Nuclear Physics Program Committee (2003-2005). and Astronomy, Rutgers, 1993-2002; Assistant Professor of Physics, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Gerhard-Hess-Prize (1988-1993), Yale University, 1980-1986; Consultant, Livermore National ECT* Senior Fellow (1996), Fellow of the American Physical Society Laboratory 1982-present; Postdoctoral staff member, Los Alamos (2001). National and International Committees: PS and LEAR National Laboratory 1978-1980; Ph.D. SUNY at Stony Brook, 1978; Experiments Committee, CERN (1988-1990), SPS and LEAR Research Assistant, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1974-1978. Experiments Committee, CERN (1991), NuPECC Committee for Honors and awards: Fellow APS and AAAS; A.P. Sloan Foundation European Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan (1996-1997), LHC and Fellow; 1997 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Scholar, Argonne National SPS Experiments Committees, CERN (1991-2001), DOE Annual RHIC Laboratory. Service to nuclear science: Member, NSAC, 2000-03; Program Review Committee (2003), DOE/NSF NSAC Subcommittee to Member, 2002 Long Range Plan in Nuclear Science Working Group; review the US heavy-ion nuclear physics program (2004). Editorial Member, Program Advisory Committees at LANSCE (LANL) and Boards: Acta Physica Hungarica New Series - Heavy-Ion Physics ATLAS (ANL); Member and Chair, ATLAS Users Group Executive (1994- ), Physical Review Letters (Divisional Associate Editor for Committee 1988-93 and 2000-02; Member, Gammasphere Users Nuclear Physics, 1998-2000), Comments on Nuclear and Particle Executive Committee, 1995-96. DNP Committees: Bonner Prize, Physics (Editor in Chief, 1999- ), Nuclear Physics A (Associate Editor, 2000- ). Research interests include: Collective dynamics and space-time 2000-01); DNP Fellowship Committee (1999-2000); Bonner Prize evolution of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and quark-gluon plasmas, Research Interests: experimental intermediate- and high-energy hadron intensity interferometry, quantum field theories for dense media in and physics, especially polarization effects, studies of broken symmetries of out of thermal equilibrium. the strong interaction, nucleon-nucleon scattering and nucleon spin structure. Cynthia E. Keppel — Positions and Education: PhD in Experimental Nuclear Physics, The American University (1995); Hampton University 21. FUTURE CONFERENCES (HU) Endowed Professor of Physics (faculty 1995 - present); Thomas
Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) Staff Scientist (joint Organizers of future conferences should contact the DNP Secretary- position, 1995 - present); Director, HU Nuclear and High Energy Treasurer if they wish their conferences listed in DNP newsletters. Physics Research Center (1999 - 2001); Director, Hampton University Graduate Studies at Jefferson Lab annual summer school (2002 - present); Committee Service: Jefferson Lab User Group Board of “International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Directors (current); APS DNP Program Committee (current); NIH Collisions (NN2006),”2006, San Paulo-Brazil National Advisory Research Resources Council (current); Chair, Chair: Mahir S. Hussein, Univ. Sao Paulo George B. Pegram Award Committee, SESAPS (current); (Co) Vice E-mail: [email protected]. Chair APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (APS CSWP, 2002); Chair, APS CSWP Site Visit Chair (2001-2003); APS “XXIX Symposium on Nuclear Physics,”3-6 January 2006 Committee on Minorities Member (1999-2000); US Vice Chair, Toluca, Mexico. Contact: Tatyana Belyaeva, UAEM Neutrino Interactions 2004 Other: Member, The Coordinated E-mail: [email protected] Theoretical-Experimental Project on QCD (CTEQ, current); http://www.nucleares.unam.mx/~bijker/sfn29.html Spokesperson, seven approved Jefferson Lab experiments (current); Institutional Representative, Fermilab MINERvA Experiment (current); “9th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award (2000); NSF CAREER Award Nuclear Physics, CIPANP 2006,”30 May-3 June 2006 (1996); SURA Thesis Prize (1999, advisor); U.S. patent 6389098, Dual Rio Grande, Puerto Rico Mode Stereotactic Localization Method and Application; AIP Blake Contact: David W. Hertzog, Chair Lilly Prize (1999) Research Interests: experimental studies of lepton- E-mail: [email protected] nucleon and -nucleus scattering to probe nucleon structure, in particular Phone: +1-217-333-3190 the transition from perturbative to non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics Fax: +1-217-333-1215 URL: http://cipanp.physics.uiuc.edu Steven E. Vigdor — Professor of Physics, Indiana University (1982- present). Ph.D. in Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1973; Postdoctoral “In Heaven and on Earth 2006: The Nuclear Equation appointee and Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, 1974- of State in Astrophysics,”5-7 July 2006 6; Assistant (1976-9) and Associate (1979-82) Professor and Physics Montreal, Canada, Contacts: C. Horowitz or R. Rutledge (co-chairs) Department Chair (2000-2001), Indiana University; Visiting Scientist at Email: [email protected] CEN Saclay, France (1990-91) and at Lawrence Berkeley National URL: http://www.heavenandearth06.org Laboratory (2003-4). Fellow, American Physical Society. Deputy Spokesman, STAR Collaboration (2002-05). Advisory Committees: “18th International IUPAP Conference On Few-Body Problems In Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (1992-95); NSAC Long Range Physics [Few-Body 18 (FB18)]” 21-26 August 2006 Plan Committees (1983,1989,1995,2001, consultant in 1979); NSAC Santos, Brazil Subcommittee on Implementation of the Long Range Plan (2005); Contact: Lauro Tomio (chair) Committee on Nuclear Physics for National Academy Physics Surveys Email: [email protected] (1983-84, 1996-99); Program Advisory Committees for IUCF (Chair, URL: http://www.fb18.com.br 1983), LAMPF (1991-93), CEBAF (1997-99); Advisory/Review
Committees for TRIUMF (1982), Triangle Universities Nuclear “19th International Conference on Applications of Accelerators Laboratory (1988-present), Argonne National Laboratory Physics Division (member, 1995-99, chair, 2000), Jefferson Laboratory (2002- in Research and Industry, CAARI-2006,”20-25 August 2006 present), MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (2003-present). Senior Ft. Worth, Texas Referee, Physical Review Letters (1980-81); Editorial Board, Physical Contacts: Barney Doyle and Del McDaniel (co-chairs) Review C (1984-86,1991-94). APS Committees: Nominating Email: [email protected] Committee (1982-83); DNP Executive Committee (1986-88); DNP URL: http://www.caari2006.com Nominating Committee (chair, 1988); DNP Program Committee (1992- 2005 Washington Computation Symposium.pdf Committee (2005-06). 94); DNP/NSAC Town Meeting Steering Committees (chair, Hadron Physics, 1995; member, Nuclear Matter and Hadrons at High Energies,
BRADLEY M. SHERRILL SUSAN J. SEESTROM RICHARD G. MILNER BENJAMIN F. GIBSON Chair Vice-Elect Vice-Chair Secretary-Treasurer NSCL Assoc. Dir. Weapons Physics 26-411 Dept. of Physics DNP, MS B283 Michigan State Univ. Acting, P.O. Box 1663, MS A106 MIT Los Alamos National Lab. East Lansing, MI 48824 Los Alamos National Lab. 77 Massachusetts Ave. Los Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (517) 333-6322 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Cambridge, MA Phone: (505) 667-5059 Fax: (517) 353-5967 Phone: (505) 665-4454 Phone: (617) 258-5439 Fax: (505) 667-1931 [email protected] Fax: (505) 665-1293 Fax: (617) 258-9599 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
TREASURER’S REPORT SEPTEMBER 2005
3/31/05 3/31/04 2/28/03 2/28/02
DNP Fund Balance $298,866 $252,646 $ 152,316 $ 62,276
12/31/04 12/31/03 12/31/02 12/31/01
Bethe Prize $215,859 $209,895 $206,568 $199,033
Bonner Prize $166,659 $163,197 $161,749 $156,784
Dissertation Award $ 50,472 $ 49,320 $ 48,823 $ 47,268